Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
On Dec. 10, the grounds around the V. Earl Dickinson building on PVCC’s main campus resembled something out of a folktale. Billowing plumes of fire shifted hues from red to purple to green. Yellow lanterns hung from a tree like strange glowing fruit. Flowers flickered gently like candles. This was not a scene from a […]
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On Oct. 22, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited sci-fi film Dune was released in theaters and on HBO Max. With an ensemble cast including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård and Javier Bardem, Dune follows the struggles of the noble house Atreides in the year 10191. Led by Duke Leto Atreides, his concubine Jessica, […]
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On Wednesday Sept. 8, the Bolick Student Center was packed with people, a rare sight in the era of social distancing. But that day was special. It was PVCC’s club day. Lining the hallway from the Bolick Student Center past the library were dozens of tables, each festooned with eye-catching displays and distinctive and often […]
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For the Fall 2021 semester, PVCC’s One Book Program has taken aim at misinformation and fake news. And the selected book, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, is available for every student and staff member on campus to read digitally, a first for the One Book Program. […]
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On Aug. 5, James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad was simultaneously released in theaters and on HBO Max, starring an ensemble cast including Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, Sylvester Stallone, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Daniel Melchior, Peter Capaldi and David Dastmalchian. The Suicide Squad sees a team of misfit superpowered criminals, designated “Task Force X,” dispatched on […]
Continue ReadingOn March 31, Legendary Pictures released the latest entry in their Monsterverse shared universe Godzilla vs. Kong, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, and Demián Bichir. As the title suggests, the film pits the fearsome reptilian kaiju Godzilla against the noble giant ape King Kong. A research team led by […]
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Instantly recognizable by any PVCC student or faculty member for his distinctive neatly-trimmed, starting-to-gray beard, his warm smile and prominent position as the Phi Theta Kappa honor society faculty adviser, Bruce Robinson has been a valued member of the community ever since he began working at PVCC in 1979. Now, after 42 years of teaching, […]
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On April 2, the PVCC Student Government Association held a virtual game night over Zoom. The entertainment chosen for the event were Jackbox TV party video games, which offered an array of delightfully zany experiences that kept the atmosphere of the event light and playful. Tee K.O., a game in which players create unique t-shirt […]
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The latest release of the Australian rock band King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard is without a doubt one of their best albums yet. As the sister album to last year’s K.G., which I previously reviewed, L.W. continues to experiment with microtonal music, utilizing tiny pitch differences between two sounds to create complex, fast-paced songs. […]
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When I started out at PVCC, the medium of journalism was not even on my radar. Ever since I was a child, I had a deep fascination with storytelling. But back then, my passion had solely lied with fiction. I paid attention to current events and had a keen interest in history, but it took […]
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